Lepidoptera Webinars “Lepinars”
There will be Lepidoptera seminars every other Monday on Zoom. Please subscribe here, if you would like to join the email list. If you would like to give a talk or nominate a speaker, contact Joana Meier (joana.meier(at)sanger.ac.uk), Luca Livraghi (miles.livraghi(at)gmail.com) or Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (gmontejokovacevich(at)gmail.com).
The talks start at 4 pm UK time.
Schedule
Lepinars of 2023
23 January 2023: Riccardo Papa (University of Puerto Rico)
Do not believe everything you see
6 February 2023: Nicol Rueda (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)
Sex chromosome – autosome fusions in Heliconius butterflies
20 February 2023: Anna Orteu (University of Cambridge, UK)
Structural variation and gene reuse are crucial in the evolution of adaptive colouration in Hypolimnas butterflies and the wood tiger moth, Arctia plantaginis
6 March 2023: Vicencio Oostra (Queen Mary University London, UK)
Mechanisms and evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity
20 March 2023: Nipam Patel (Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago, USA)
Clonal analysis uncovers early patterning steps in Lepidopteran wing development
3 April 2023: Noah Whiteman (U Berkeley, USA)
Cascading effects of acquired chemical defenses in insects: a tale of two toxins
17 April 2023: Rachel Steward (Lund University, Sweden)
Evolutionary patterns and consequences of alternative splicing in phenotypically plastic traits
1 May 2023: No talk as holiday in the UK and other countries
15 May 2023: Luca Livraghi (George Washington University, USA)
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Lepinars of previous years
Lepinars of 2020
11 May 2020: Luca Livraghi (U Cambridge, UK)
The gene cortex controls scale colour identity in Heliconius
25 May 2020: Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA)
Investigation of wing pattern mutants in a domesticated population of Heliconius melpomene
8 June 2020: Kelsey Byers (U Cambridge, UK)
QTL for potential wing and genital pheromone compounds show clustering across the genome
22 June 2020: Krzysztof Kozak (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama)
Population genomics of large mimetic radiations
6 July 2020: Melanie Brien (U Sheffield / U Cambridge, UK)
The genetics and evolution of structural colour in Heliconius butterflies
20 July 2020: Nate Edelman (U Harvard, USA)
The molecular basis of hybrid female sterility in Heliconius pardalinus subspecies
3 August 2020: Nicol Rueda (U del Rosario, Colombia)
Importance of environmental variables in the distribution and natural hybridization of Heliconius butterflies.
7 September 2020: Wyatt Toure (McGill U, USA / STRI, Panama)
Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations
21 September 2020: Erika Pinheiro de Castro (U Cambridge, UK)
Phenotypic plasticity in chemical defence allows butterflies to diversify host use strategies
5 October 2020: Matteo Rossi (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Genetics of visual mate preference in Heliconius butterflies
19 October 2020: Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich (U Cambridge, UK)
Local adaptation in Heliconius butterflies (beyond mimicry)
2 November 2020: Alexander Hausmann (LMU, Munich, Germany)
Heliconius mating behaviours affected by light environment during early stages of divergence
16 November 2020: Francesco Cicconardi (U Bristol, UK)
A Flock of Genomes: New and revised genomic resources for 58 species of Heliconiini
30 November 2020: Lucie Queste (U York, UK / LMU, Munich, Germany)
Flight and wing shape in the Heliconiini
14 December 2020: James Lewis (Cornell U, USA)
Adaptive diversification of red wing color patterns in Heliconius erato
Lepinars of 2021
25 January 2021: Camille Le Roy (CNRS, France)
Convergent morphology and divergent phenology: unravelling the coexistence of mimetic Morpho butterfly species
8 February 2021: Paul Jay (CNRS, France)
The evolution of supergenes: insight from mimicry polymorphism in Heliconius numata
22 February 2021: Kathy Darragh (U Davis, USA)
Pheromones in Heliconius butterflies: Chemical ecology, genetics and behaviour
8 March 2021: Steven van Belleghem (U Puerto Rico)
Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizing Heliconius butterflies
22 March 2021: Simon Martin (U Edinburgh, UK)
Formation, reformation and deformation of structural barriers to gene flow in Danaus butterflies
19 April 2021: Joe Hanly (George Washington U, USA)
Speciation genomics in North American Colias butterflies
10 May 2021: Stephen Montgomery (U Bristol, UK)
Mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies
17 May 2021: Brian Counterman (Auburn University, USA)
Genetics of sexually dimorphic UV on Dogface wings
7 June 2021: Kay Lucek (U Basel, Switzerland)
When species meet again – secondary contact zones of Erebia butterflies
14 June 2021: Mahul Chakraborty (UC Irvine, USA)
The big and the small of it: Comparing complete, diploid assemblies of vulnerable and common butterfly species exhibiting dramatic genome size variation
28 June 2021: Yuttapong Thawornwattana (Harvard U, USA)
Full likelihood analysis of divergence and introgression in the erato-sara group of Heliconius
12 July 2021: Erica Westerman (University of Arkansas, USA)
Mechanisms underlying behavioral variation in Heliconius and Bicyclus butterflies
23 August 2021: Adriana Briscoe (UC Irvine, USA)
True UV color vision in a female Heliconius butterfly with two UV opsins
20 September 2021: Anniina Mattila (U Helsinki, Finland)
Dissecting the ecological, evolutionary, life-history and molecular influencers of cyanogenic chemical defense variation in Heliconius erato
18 October 2021: Erika Páez (CNRS, Paris, France)
Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry
1 November 2021: Stefan Schulz (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
The scent chemistry of Heliconius
15 November 2021: Charlotte Wright (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
The evolution of chromosome structure in Lepidoptera
13 December 2021: Nicolas Chazot (University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)
Historical biogeography from a supertree of Nymphalidae butterflies and a macroevolutionary perspective on the evolution of mimicry in the tribe Ithomiini.
Lepinars of 2022
10 January 2022: Niklas Wahlberg (Lund University, Sweden)
Lepidoptera phylogenomics and the uses of museomics
24 January 2022: Wendy Valencia-Montoya (Harvard University, USA)
Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)
7 February 2022: Rishi De-Kayne (University of Edinburgh, UK)
The evolution of complex wing-pattern supergenes in Danaus butterflies
21 February 2022: Johanna Mappes (U Helsinki, Finland)
The ecology of complex polymorphism
7 March 2022: Swanne P Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis, US)
Examining the maintenance of polymorphism in aposematism: lessons from a ‘non-model’ model system
21 March 2022: Jeremy Andersen (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
Hybridization to extinction revisited: gene flow across species boundaries as biotic resistance
4 April 2022: Astrid Groot (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The genetic basis and evolutionary significance of sex pheromone variation in moths
02 May 2022: Zachariah Gompert (Utah State University, US)
Coupling and introgression in a butterfly hybrid zone
16 May 2022: Martik Chatterjee (Cornell University, US)
Investigating the role of bric-a-brac in regulating wing scale morphology and color patterning across Lepidoptera
13 June 2022: Anyi Mazo-Vargas (George Washington University, US)
The cis-regulatory architecture of butterfly’s wing pattern groundplan
5 September 2022: Bruna Cama (U York, UK)
Pheromones as reproductive barriers in the Heliconiini radiation
19 September 2022: James R Walters (U Kansas, USA)
The Danaus W chromosome & Bombyx testes single-cell transcriptomic
3 October 2022: Francesco Cicconardi (Bristol U, UK)
Evolutionary dynamics of genome size and content during the adaptive radiation of Heliconiini butterflies
17 October 2022: Petr Nguyen (U South Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera
31 October 2022: Christine Merlin (Texas A&M University, USA)
Molecular bases of migratory physiology and behavior in monarch butterflies
14 November 2022: Christopher Lawrence (Princeton University, USA) and Reshma Ramesh Babu (Ohio State University, USA)
Making Models and Mining Mimics
28 November 2022: Alex Mackintosh (U Edinburgh, UK)
Chromosome evolution and speciation in Brenthis fritillary butterflies
12 December 2022: Pável Matos-Maraví (Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ)
Historical biogeography and macroevolution of neotropical butterflies